[PD] [nbuntil]: an non-blocking [until] replacement

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 7:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [nbuntil]: an non-blocking [until] replacement
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> On 17/12/12 08:06, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  Why not just trigger each iteration with [bang~]?
> 
> because with [bang~] you would get a single iteration per block, rather than as 
> many iterations as you have time for ... which seems to be the intention of 
> [nbuntil], and very useful where you might want to do a loop which may be too 
> long for one cycle but you can wait and use the results when they are ready, 
> after a few cycles perhaps.

Ah I see.  So it assumes iterations won't take a majority of a dsp tick.

-Jonathan

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> Simon
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